Saturday, January 28, 2012

FDI cap in various sectors

Here is a list of maximum FDI allowed in various sectors in India:

Petroleum Refining - 100%
Petroleum Marketing - 100%
Oil Exploration - 100%
Coal and Lignite Fields - 100%
Power - 100%
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals - 100%
Roads, Ports, Harbors - 100%
Hotels - 100%
Advertising - 100%
Films - 100%
Special Economic Zones - 100%
Non Banking Finance Companies - 100%
Private Sector Banking - 74%
Telecommunications - 49%
Insurance - 26%

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Deja vu

Déjà vu (French - "already seen") is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness" or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past. The opposite of deja vu is jamais vu - in which a person cannot temporarily remember something that they are well acquainted with. For example, when you cannot recall a common word, you are in jamais vu. Sometimes, when some words are almost there at the tip of your tongue but you are unable to spell it out, it is called presque vu.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Unfriend

The world "Unfriend" has been added to the dictionary.

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, It is the word of the year for 2009!!! And It was a tight race indeed with words like "netbook", "sexting" and "hashtag" giving strong competition. After the selection, several critics argued that the proper term is "defriend" and not unfriend. Oxford's researchers claim that unfriend is the more commonly used of the two.


World's Top 10 Airlines

Here is a list of the top 10 airlines of the world in 2011 according to Skytrax ratings:

1. Qatar Airways
2. Singapore Airlines
3. Asiana Airlines
4. Cathay Pacific
5. Thai Airways
6. Etihad Airways
7.Air New Zealand
8. Qantas Airways
9. Turkish Airlines
10. Emirates



How Many Share Your Birthday

Nineteen Million!!!

And, how does one arrive at this calculation? In fact, Its simple math. There are 365 days in a year and one shares birthday with 1/365 of the total population. Rounding off the total population to be 7 billion, one would share birthday with over 19 million people around the world. But, if you are one of the very few people who are born on 29th February, you would share your birthday with only 4 million people!!!